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#LiveUpdate: National Collation Centre INEC Presidential Results, Niger - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
Editor 2
February 26, 2019
#NigeriaDecides2019
Niger State Collation of Results
C.O: Prof. A. Freeman
Total No: Reg Voters: 2,375,568
Total No: of Accredited: 911,964
Total Votes Cast: 896,976
Total Valid Votes: 851,937
Rejected Votes: 45,039
AAC: 324
ADC: 588
ADP: 2,582
APC: 612,371
PDP: 218,052
SDP: 239


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#LiveUpdate: National Collation Centre INEC Presidential Results, Ogun State - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
Publisher (F.BA)
February 26, 2019
C.O: Prof: A.A. Joseph
#NigeriaDecides2019
Results
Total No: Reg Voters: 2,336,887
Total No: of Accredited: 613,397
Total Votes Cast: 605,938
Total Valid Votes: 564,256
Rejected Votes: 41,682
AAC: 3,196
ADC: 25,283
ADP: 7,705
APC: 281,762
PDP: 194,655
SDP: 1,374

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#LiveUpdate: National Collation Centre INEC Presidential Results, Ondo - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
Editor 4
February 25, 2019
Ondo State
C.O: Prof. Kayode S
#NigeriaDecides2019
Collation of Results
Total No: Reg Voters: 1,812,567
Total No: of Accredited: 598,586
Total Votes Cast: 586,827
Total Valid Votes: 555,994
Rejected Votes: 30,833
AAC:4,414
ADC:6,296
ADP:1,005
APC:241,769
PDP:275,901
SDP:1,618

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#LiveUpdate: National Collation Centre INEC Presidential Results, Oyo - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
Editor 2
February 26, 2019
#NigeriaDecides2019
Oyo State Collation of Results
C.O: Prof: S. Abdulkareem
Total No: Reg Voters: 2,796,542
Total No: of Accredited: 905,007
Total Votes Cast: 891,080
Total Valid Votes: 836,531
Rejected Votes: 54,549
AAC: 4,041
ADC: 40,830
ADP: 25,384
APC:  365,229
PDP: 366,690
SDP: 766

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#LiveUpdate: National Collation Centre INEC Presidential Results, Plateau State - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
Editor 4
February 26, 2019
#NigeriaDecides2019
Collation of Results
Total No: Reg Voters:2,423,381
Total No: of Accredited:1,074,042
Total Votes Cast:1,062,862
Total Valid Votes:1,034,853
Rejected Votes:28,009
AAC:268
ADC:590
ADP:1,395
APC:468,555
PDP:548,665
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#LiveUpdate: National Collation Centre INEC Presidential Results, Rivers - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
Editor 2
February 27, 2019
#NigeriaDecides2019
Rivers State Collationof Results
C.O: Prof. E. Essien
Total No: Reg Voters: 3,215,273
Total No: of Accredited: 678,167
Total Votes Cast: 666,585
Total Valid Votes: 642,165
Rejected Votes: 24,420
AAC: 372
ADC: 597
ADP: 295
APC: 150,710
PDP: 473,971
SDP: 1,244

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#LiveUpdate: National Collation Centre INEC Presidential Results, Sokoto - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
Editor 2
February 26, 2019
#NigeriaDecides2019
Sokoto State Collationof Results
C.O: Prof. M. Bello
Total No: Reg Voters: 1,895,266
Total No: of Accredited: 950,107
Total Votes Cast: 925,940
Total Valid Votes: 871,891
Rejected Votes: 54,049
AAC: 181
ADC: 331
ADP: 189
APC: 490,333
PDP: 361,604
SDP: 301


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#LiveUpdate: National Collation Centre INEC Presidential Results. Taraba State - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
Editor 4
February 26, 2019
C.O: Prof. Shehu Adamu
#NigeriaDecides2019
Collation of Results
Total No: Reg Voters:1,777,105
Total No: of Accredited: 756,111
Total Votes Cast: 741,564
Total Valid Votes: 712,877
Rejected Votes: 28,687
AAC: 116
ADC: 211
ADP: 136
APC: 324,906
PDP:374,743
SDP: 862


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#LiveUpdate: National Collation Centre INEC Presidential Results, Zamfara - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
Editor 2
February 26, 2019
#NigeriaDecides2019
Zamfara State Collation of Results
C.O: Prof. K. Bala
Total No: Reg Voters: 1,717,128
Total No: of Accredited: 616,168
Total Votes Cast: 597,224
Total Valid Votes: 578,439
Rejected Votes: 18,785
AAC: 186
ADC: 186
ADP: 102
APC: 438,682
PDP: 125,423
SDP: 81


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Living Standard: FG Disburses N60m In Nasarawa To Tackle Unemployment, Improve Lives - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
Abubakar Abubakar
April 25, 2019
The National Directorate of Employment, NDE in Nasarawa State says the Federal Government has disbursed at least 60 million naira as loans to people in the state, as part of its employment drive since the directorate was established in 1998.
The loans were also part of efforts to address poverty and improve the living standard of the people of the state.
The state’s Coordinator of the scheme, Dauda Idris-Wase, made this known in Lafia on Thursday, at an orientation programme for beneficiaries of the NDE Empowerment/Loans Schemes in the state.
Idris-Wase explained that the programme was organised to educate the different categories of beneficiaries on how to start and run micro-enterprises efficiently.

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Load Shedding: Transmission Company Apologies To Kaduna, Kano, Plateau Customers - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
Publisher (J.T)
September 20, 2021
General Manager, Public Affairs of the company Ndidi Mbah in a statement in Abuja, said the load shedding in those states was due to efforts by the Niger Delta Power Holding Company, NDPHC to connect the new Lafia Substation to national grid.
She added that the Niger Delta Power Holding Company requested for power outage on the Makurdi-Jos portion of the Company’s  Ikot Ekpene-Ugwuaji-Makurdi–Jos 330 kilo vault transmission line to enable it carry out transposition on the line and to connect the new Lafia substation.
The Spokesperson also noted that the connection work by Niger Delta Power Holding Company will increase the capacity of the national grid.
She however assured that bulk power supply will be restored on the Makurdi – Jos line immediately after Niger Delta Power Holding Company NDPHC completes the transposition work.

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Load Shedding: Transmission Company Apologises To Kaduna, Kano, Plateau Customers - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
Editor 4
September 20, 2021
General Manager, Public Affairs of the company Ndidi Mbah in a statement in Abuja, said the load shedding in those states was due to efforts by the Niger Delta Power Holding Company, NDPHC to connect the new Lafia Substation to national grid.
She added that the Niger Delta Power Holding Company requested for power outage on the Makurdi-Jos portion of the Company’s Ikot Ekpene-Ugwuaji-Makurdi–Jos 330 kilo vault transmission line to enable it carry out transposition on the line and to connect the new Lafia substation.
The Spokesperson also noted that the connection work by Niger Delta Power Holding Company will increase the capacity of the national grid.
She however assured that bulk power supply will be restored on the Makurdi – Jos line immediately after Niger Delta Power Holding Company NDPHC completes the transposition work.


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Loan: Federal Government Insists N24tn Debt Still Sustainable - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
Publisher (J.T)
April 24, 2019
The Federal government has said that the country’sdebt which currently stands at about twenty four point three trillion naira is stillwithin sustainable limit.
The Minister of Finance Zainab Ahmed in a statementsaid that the country’s debt, which is about nineteen per cent to the GrossDomestic Product, GDP was still low compared to Ghana, Brazil, South Africa,Egypt and Angola.
She maintained that there was no plan to remove fuelsubsidy as being speculated.
Zainab said that the current subsidy arrangementwhich was in the form of under recovery by the Nigerian National PetroleumCorporation, NNPC was far better than what was obtainable when oil marketerswere paid directly for fuel subsidy.
She added that NNPC is the sole importer ofpetroleum products, and so when they import it is the cost of business and theydeduct that cost before they remit the little money to the federation account.


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Local Content: Civil Servants Told To Wear 'Made In Kenya Outfits' - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
Publisher (F.BA)
October 23, 2019
Kenya’s government has ordered civil servants towear locally tailored clothes to work on Fridays and during public holidays.
The order is meant to boost the local manufacturingindustry, a key plank in President Uhuru’s Kenyatta so-called Big 4 Agenda.
The order was communicated in a circular signed bySolicitor-General Kennedy Ogeto, who has confirmed its authenticity to Kenya’sDaily Nation newspaper.
It is unclear whether there will be disciplinarymeasures against those who don’t comply.
President Kenyatta and his deputy William Ruto ledby example during Sunday’s Heroes’ Day celebrations in the coastal city ofMombasa, wearing Kenyan-made attires.

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Local Content: NCC Plans To Develop Policy To Reduce Youth Unemployment – Danbatta - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
Editor 2
April 30, 2019
Executive Vice-Chairman, NigerianCommunications Commission NCC Umar Danbatta, says the commission is ready tofully develop local content policy in the country, to reduce youthunemployment.
The Local Content Policy is an Actwhich defines a Nigerian Company to mean a Company registered in Nigeria inaccordance with the provisions of the CAMA
With not less than 51 per centequity shares owned by Nigerians mandates investors in the sector to considerNigerian content is an important element in project development
Danbatta, represented by Director of Consumer Affairs Bureau, NCC Felicia Onwegbuchulam, stated this on Tuesday in Abuja when members of the Abuja Chamber of Commerce and Industry visited the commission. He said that NCC was happy about the entrepreneurial training programme that the chamber had in place for youths .


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Local Content: SGF Lauds TCN For Adherence To Policy - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
Editor 2
June 15, 2019
The Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Boss Mustapha has commended the Transmission Company of Nigeria, TCN for adherence to local content unitization in its operations.
He made the commendation when a TCN delegation led by its Managing Director Usman Mohammed, visited him in Abuja.
TheSecretary to the Government of the Federation stated in a statement by Directorof Information in his office, Willie Bassey that the strategy deployed in theutilization of indigenous expertise in TCN’s operations had yielded optimalproductivity.
According to Mustapha, from the work being put in place, Nigerians will soon begin to enjoy adequate and uninterrupted power supply across the country.
He said that the improved power generation, with efficient transmission and distribution across the country would have positive impact on employment and job creation.
Earlier, Mohammed had said that the visit was to brief Mustapha on the efforts being made and the grounds already covered in stabilising and modernising the national grid.


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Local Contents: Federal Government Pledges To Support Manufacturers - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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September 23, 2019
The FederalGovernment has pledged to support local manufacturers across the country.
Vice PresidentYemi Osibanjo stated this in Abuja at the 6Annual General Meetingof the Manufacturer Association of Nigeria, MAN Abuja branch, comprisingNasarawa, Niger states and Abuja.
Osinbajo who wasrepresented by the Managing Director, Bank of Industry, Olukayode Pitan citedthe recent border closure as one of the measures to protect localmanufacturers.
Also speaking, theMinister for State Trade and Investment Maryam Katagum, said the ministrythrough its relevant agencies would ensure more access to affordable andavailable finance for the sector.

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Local Councils: Governor Masari Faults Opposition On Elections In Katsina - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
Publisher (A.M)
December 29, 2021
Masari told a media parley that the state government has been to the
state’s High Court, the Federal High Court and up to the Supreme Court
not once, and not twice.
The Governor also accused the opposition of breaking their litigations
into fractions so as to prolong the issue of local government elections
and even make it impossible during his tenure.
He explained that the opposition was skeptical about local government
elections in the state by claiming that government was not sincere about
its plan to conduct them in the first quarter of 2022.
Masari added that following the Supreme Court judgment, government
set up a committee and almost 98 per cent of the payment to the affected
officials was completed. He said another committee was set up to
conduct the local government elections in the first quarter of the new
year.
Masari however reiterated his position on power shift to the southern
part of the country in 2023, saying that would help to consolidate the
nation’s federalism.

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Local Councils: Katsina Electoral Commission Fixes April 11 For Polls - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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January 12, 2022
Chairman of the commission Ibrahim Bako, who announced this at a press conference on Tuesday in Katsina, said all stakeholders, political parties should note that only candidate(s) sponsored by a party will officially be considered to contest the election.
He also advised stakeholders to comply and adhere with the laws and guidelines governing the conduct of local government council in the state.
Bako added that political rallies and campaigns would be conducted in accordance with the laid down rules, regulations and guidelines for hitch-free local government elections in the state.
The Chairman, while responding to a question on the fate of those displaced by insecurity in the state, said all necessary actions would be taken to ensure that everyone exercised their franchise.
Also, the state chairman of the opposition Peoples Democratic Party, PDP Salisu Majigiri demanded a release of a timetable to political parties for proper preparations, including primary elections.

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Local, Foreign Debt: Senate Committee Frowns At Lopsided Contract Payment - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
Editor 4
March 27, 2019
TheSenate Committee on Local and Foreign Debts has frowned at what it described aslopsided payment to local contractors.
TheChairman of the committee, Shehu Sani, made the remark when the Ministry ofFinance and Debt Management Office appeared before the committee for theirbudget defence.
Saniexpressed concern that the debt repayment to a contractor from a particularregion of the economy was more than all others put together.
Hefurther noted that there were complaints that some local contractors whoexecuted projects recently were allegedly being considered for payment, whilesome who were owed for about 10 years were not considered.
Herequested for explanation from the Ministry of Finance on the criteria used incarrying out such payment.
Heasked the ministry to submit documents on amount paid to contractors andcomprehensive evidence and list of payment from 2016 to date and other paymentsmade for the committee to study.


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Local Governments: Mixed Feelings As Governors Barred From Accessing Funds - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
Editor 2
June 1, 2019
The Nigerian Financial IntelligenceUnit, NFIU has banned Governors from accessing funds meant for localgovernments.
NFIU says it has decided to upholdthe full provisions of Section 162 of the 1999 Constitution by ensuring that“State Joint Local Government Account shall be paid in, allocations to thelocal government councils of the state from the Federation Account and from thegovernment of the state.
Acting Chief Media Analyst of NFIU,Ahmed Dikko in a statement said that the enforcement of the guidelines issuedbased on the constitutional provision, is necessary to stimulate the reductionof crime vulnerabilities created by cash withdrawals from local governmentfunds across the country.
He said with effect from June 1,any bank that allows any transaction from any local government account withoutmonies first reaching a particular local government account will be sanctionedone hundred  per cent, locally and internationally.


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Local Govt. Autonomy: Traditional Ruler Urges FG Use Veto Power To Achieve Policy - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
Editor 2
June 10, 2019
Atraditional ruler of Nembe Kingdom in Bayelsa state Edmond Dakuru has urged theFederal Government to tackle the lingering issue of local government autonomyby using its veto power.
Dakurusaid in Port Harcourt that the measure had become necessary to assist theFederal Government impact efficiently on the local populace.
Heurged the Federal Government to exercise its supreme power to achieve financialindependence which is key to true democracy for the third tier of government.
TheMonarch said that local governments over the years had failed in terms ofattracting real development to the local populace and so, should be granted autonomyto enable it take full control of its revenue and needs of the local people.
Dakurudescribed as “worrisome’’, the insistence by state governors to continuerunning a joint account with the local government, a strategy which accordingto him, has been proven to be a hindrance to growth in the third tier ofgovernment.


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Local Govt. Polls: Kaduna Residents Decry Insecurity, Poor Knowledge Of Voting Machines - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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August 30, 2021
Experts believe the election is between the candidates of the ruling All Progressive Congress, APC and the opposition Peoples Democratic Party, PDP in the state.
The Kaduna State Independent Electoral Commission, KAD-SIECOM has however, expressed its readiness for the conduct of the polls using upgraded Electronic Voting Machines, EVM, many residents have expressed worries of security challenges and poor knowledge of how to use the upgraded machines.
Umar Abdullah in Kaduna South, who said he was ready to cast his vote, expressed worries of bandits attack. He however, called on the State Government to deploy more security to all polling units across the 23 councils to give security backing to all voters.
Also, Munirat Hafsat Abdullahi, in Kajuru said majority of the people are illiterates and would not understand how to vote through electronic voting machines. She also recalled the 2018 elections in the state, where a representative of come a political party, at the polling unit has to direct a voter on how to press the machine for a candidate of her choice.


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Local Production: Federal Government Approves New Policy On Bitumen - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
Editor 4
July 23, 2020
The Minister of Works and Housing, Babatunde Fashola, who announced this at the end of the Council meeting, said the policy is approved to develop strategies to enhance, stimulate, and encourage local production of bitumen in the country.
He also expressed optimism that the policy, when fully operational, would enable the country save millions of dollars from importation of bitumen, which is a raw material used in road construction, worldwide.
Fashola emphasised that the policy will help to further diversify the economy and open another sub-sector of the extractive and hydro-carbon industry for local opportunities.
According to Fashola, there is a demand of 500,000 metric tonnes of bitumen locally in Nigeria per annum,  calling on the private sector to take advantage of the new policy by investing heavily in local production of bitumen.


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Local Products: Army Takes Delivery Of Made-In-Nigeria Cylinders To Promote Welfare Scheme - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
Editor 2
April 22, 2019
The Nigerian Army has taken delivery of cylinders manufacturedby a Nigerian company for the flag off of its Welfare Scheme.
The cylinders were produced at Oil’s newly-built Liquefied PetroleumGas LPG manufacturing plant in Lagos, which started rolling out cylindersearlier this year.
The company which has since secured certifications by variousagencies, including the Standards Organisation of Nigeria, SON is producing incommercial quantities for Nigeria and overseas markets.
On April 11, the Army inaugurated a scheme, knownas the Nigerian Army Welfare, and followed up with the inauguration of aLiquefied Petroleum Gas LPG plant at the Mambila Barracks in Abuja.Theevent was witnessed by the Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, IbeKachikwu, who directed that filling stations would henceforth host LPG plantsas part of efforts to deepen cooking gas usage in Nigeria.


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Local Remedies, Sensitisation, Precautionary Measures Panacea To Covid-19 Spread In Nigeria - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
Publisher (F.BA)
August 22, 2022
Some of the measures include intensifying efforts on research for local remedies, renewed and sustained sensitisation as well as adherence to precautionary and preventive measures.
It was reported that Corona-viruses are a group of related viruses that cause diseases in mammals and birds. In humans, Corona-viruses cause respiratory tract infections that can range from mild to fatal.
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control, NCDC also reports of an additional 144 new COVID-19 cases from 14 to 15 August 2022 where Lagos State is ahead of other states with 101 cases.
A Virologist, Oyewale Tomori, called for more consistency in the way information, data and updates on COVID-19 pandemic are being provided to the general public in Nigeria.


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Local Shoe Production: Nigeria To Save N20bn Annually - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
Editor 2
June 9, 2019
The Director General,Defence Research and Development Bureau, DRDB Jomo Osahor said the Memorandumof Understanding between the Nigerian Institute of Leather and ScienceTechnology, NILEST Kaduna State, and DRDB on research and development offootwear for the Armed Forces will save Nigeria about N20 billion nairaannually.
Speaking at thesigning ceremony in Abuja, Osahor said it would also help to provide employmentand build capacities.
The Permanent Secretary,Federal Ministry of Science and Technology, Bitrus Bako Nabasu said the MoU ispart of the drive to diversify the economy and conserve foreign exchange.
He added theinitiative would also help in the effective exploitation of naturalresources.
According to Nabasu,the ministry is committed to implementing the MoU.
Earlier, the ActingDirector General, NILEST Eucharia Oparah said the bilateral partnership wouldreduce capital flight and promote made-in-Nigeria goods.


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Lockdown: C.A.N Distributes Food Items, Others To Less Privilege In Kaduna - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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April 1, 2020
TheChristian Association of Nigeria, CAN Kaduna state Chapter has distributed foodand other items to the less privileged, following the 24-hour curfew in Kadunato check the spread of Coronavirus.
Kadunastate Chapter CAN, Chairman Reverend Joseph Hayab, said the association hascontributed about 2 million naira worth of food items and started distributionto those in need following the curfew imposed by the state to check spread ofcoronavirus.
Heexplained that the palliative measure is meant to identify with beneficiariesduring the hard times and to show concern for their wellbeing, it is also meantto encourage them to obey government’s directive to stay at home.
In same vein,the Taraba State chapter of CAN and the Muslim Council of Nigeria, MCN are topartner with the Taraba State Primary Health Care Development Agency to preventthe spread of COVID-19 in the state.
CANChairman in the state, Isaiah Magaji and MCN Chairman, Ahmed Bose who attendedthe meeting agreed that the issue is risky and should be taken seriously by alland sundry irrespective of religion, tribe and political differences.


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Lockdown: KDSG Threatens 14-Day Quarantine For Travellers Into State - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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April 9, 2020
The Kaduna State Government has cautioned travellers against violating the stay-at-home order imposed to curb Covid-19 spread, noting that no traveller is allowed into the state during curfew hours.
The Commissioner for InternalSecurity and Home Affairs, Samuel Aruwan, who gave the warning in a statementat the end of the meeting of the State Standing Committee on COVID-19 inKaduna, said any traveller who flouted the order risked being quarantined for14 days.
He added that the latest order totravellers into the state during curfew hours, took effect as from today,Thursday.
The statement said those deniedentry will be asked to return to where they were coming from, while those whowant to enter the state will be quarantine for 14 days in an isolationfacility.
It added that security agencies havebeen instructed to turn back people at entry points into the state like theKaduna-Abuja road, Kaduna-Birnin Gwari Road, Kaduna-Zaria-Kano road, KachiaRoad, the Bwari-Jere-Kagarko Road, Gumel-Kwoi-Keffi road, Zaria-Funtua Road andthe Jos-Manchock Road.


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lockdown: Nigerians, We Are In Extreme Hunger - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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April 27, 2020
With 24-hour notice given by the government, citizenswith, households struggling without income during the lockdown given their dependence on  small, informal businesses, the need for food and cash relief has grown critical.
Since the pandemic of Covid-19, Nigerian government has only provided cash relief to 3.6 million poor households during the lockdown—a tiny figure in a country where 95.9 million people live in extreme poverty. Having surpassed India as the country with the most extreme poor people in the world in 2018, Nigeria now also ranks among the 16 countries globally where extreme poverty rates are still rising.
Also the government’s inability to cater for its poor reflects a long-running lack of a functioning, nationwide social welfare system. While president Muhammadu Buhari’s administration has attempted to set up more social intervention programs, from feeding school children to cash transfers, the stark realities of the ongoing lockdown show those efforts are nowhere near enough.


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Lockdown: Tough Decisions Coming From Buhari Next Week – NCDC - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
Publisher (J.T)
April 22, 2020
President Muhamadu Buhari is expected to make some very tough decisions next week on the lockdown due to coronavirus pandemic.
The Director-General, Nigeria Centre for Disease Control, NCDC Chikwe Ihekweazu stated this in Katsina when he visited Governor Aminu Masari to see the state’s preparedness for pandemic.
He announced that the President is scheduled to join the Governors’ forum teleconference meeting to discuss some of the decisions.
On his part, Governor Masari expressed worry that young men from Katsina State, scattered all over Nigeria, especially Lagos, Port Harcourt and Abuja, were returning home avoiding official entry points because of the vastness of the land.
He added that his government had involved traditional rulers so that returnees could be identified and quarantined for 14 days, saying those returning through official borders were being recorded and data taken to quarantine them too.


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Lockdown Violation May Push Cases To 57,000 In Kaduna State - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
Publisher (J.T)
April 14, 2020
The KadunaState coronavirus disease, COVID-19 taskforce has expressed fear that the statecould record up to 57,000 cases, if the violation of the lockdown orderpersists.
The taskforce added that the case ofan infected gateman, who returned from Lagos, was enough to reveal localtransmission of the disease; hence the need to maintain the stay-at-home order.
The state government said tracingover 300 persons that had in contact with the gateman from Lagos wasimpossible. Besides, five other persons tested positive to COVID-19 in Kaduna.
The Commissioner for InternalSecurity and Home Affairs, Samuel Aruwan, while addressing security men inKaduna, said the state did not have the capacity to handle large number ofinfected persons.
Aruwan, who warned of loomingdisaster due to the failure to maintain lockdown in the state, appealed withthe security patrol team to sustain the tempo.
The statement however has been metwith serious criticism as professionals say the projection lacks scientificbase and smacks of fear instead of hope.


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Lockdown: Wednesday and Thursday As New market days - Kaduna Govt - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
Publisher (J.T)
May 18, 2020
The Kaduna State Government has reviewed the two-day window for free movement in the State.
The Managing Director, Kaduna Markets Development and Management Company, Hafiz Bayero, in a statement on Sunday said the days for free movement has been adjusted to Wednesday and Thursday.
He said before the new change, residents were allowed to move out of their homes to purchase foodstuffs on Saturdays and Wednesdays.
News Agency of Nigeria reports that the adjustment may not be unconnected with the forthcoming Eid-el-Fitr Festival expected to come up on Saturday, May 23.
Hafiz Bayero also said, “Following the government’s decision, the Kaduna Markets Development and Management Company has announced that it will make all the necessary arrangements for the orderly and safe conduct of trading activities at all the designated temporary neighborhood markets.
“Traders and their customers visiting the temporary markets on Wednesday and Thursday are expected to wear face masks, observe physical distancing and comply with other public health protocols on both days,” he said.
The Managing Director warned traders against setting up illegal shops on the streets near the closed main markets.
He added that the temporary markets would operate from 10:00am to 4:00pm for the two days.


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London Summit: ACFTA To Top Discussion, As Adesina Visits UK - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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January 18, 2020
TheAfrican Continental Free Trade Area, ACFTA will top discussion as the Presidentof African Development Bank, AfDB, Akinwumi Adesina, is expected in London forthe milestone Investment Summit.
Thebank’s Communication and External Relations Department made this known in anissued statement in Abuja.
TheAfDB said new opportunities for bi-lateral trade and increasing UK investorappetite in Africa would be the main focus of the UK-Africa summit, convened byPrime Minister Boris Johnson. The summit is scheduled to hold on January 20th.
Itadded that the future trade relationship between the UK and Africa would alsobe discussed.
At the UK, Adesina will participate in plenary panel discussion on: ‘SustainableFinance and Infrastructure – Unlocking the City of London and UK financialservices for growth in Africa’ alongside Presidents Uhuru Kenyatta, of Kenyaand Nana Akufo-Addo, of Ghana.
TheAfDB noted that the one-day event, co-organised by the Royal African Societyand Oxford Brooks University, would have UK parliamentarians, academics, andpolicymakers in attendance.

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London Trip: Buhari Returns To Abuja 2 Days Ahead Of Schedule - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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November 16, 2019
President Muhammadu Buhari has cut short his two-weekprivate visit to London by two days as he arrived the Presidential Wing of theNnamdi Azikiwe International Airport Abuja last night.
The President, who was on official visit to SaudiArabia before the commencement of the private visit to London on November 2,was initially scheduled to return to Nigeria on November 17.
Buhari attended the third Future Investment Initiativein Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, where he later performed the Lesser Hajj alongsideGovernors Atiku Bagudu, Aminu Masari and Babagana Zulum of Kebbi, Katsina andBorno States.
The President was in Saudi Arabia when the SupremeCourt on October 30, dismissed the appeal by the People’sDemocratic Party and its presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar challenging hisvictory at the February  23 presidential election.

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Look For Shawwal Moon Friday — Sultan - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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May 19, 2020
The Nigerian Supreme Council for Islamic Affairs under the leadership of its President-General and Sultan of Sokoto, Muhammad Sa’ad Abubakar tye 3rd, has urged Muslims across the country to look for the new moon of Shawwal on Friday.
The Deputy Secretary-General of the council, Salisu Shehu, said this in a statement.
According to Shehu, following the advice of the National Moon Sighting Committee, Friday, 22nd May, 2020, which is equivalent to 29th Ramadan, 1441 AH, is the first day to look for the Crescent of Shawwal, 1441 After Hijra.
He added that the Sultan felicitates with the entire Muslim Ummah in Nigeria and all over the world on the 1441 Ramadan Fast, praying that Allah grant us the opportunity to witness more of it on earth.
While reminding the Ummah of the necessity of paying Zakatul-Fitri with the intention of lifting the hearts of the indigent members of the community, the council urges all to ensure its delivery to the appropriate recipients and guard against its diversion by any agent or intermediary.


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Looted Money: Nigeria To Recover $200m Hidden Overseas — Justice Minister - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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November 17, 2021
Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice Abubakar Malami, SAN explained that the return of the fund was subject to the settlement of proceedings that the Federal Ministry of Justice was currently attending to.
The Minister spoke at the 2021 annual public lecture organized by the Centre for Media and Peace Initiative, New York, United States of America.
Malami in a statement by his Special Assistant on Media and Public Relations Umar Gwandu insisted that outstanding successes recorded by President Muhammadu Buhari in international asset recovery, could be a template for other African countries in the fight against corruption.
He added that President Buhari, being an Africa Union Champion in the fight against corruption, has endeavoured under his leadership to fight corruption in all its ramified manifestations through legislative framework, institutional infrastructure, the adoption of effective preventive measures against corruption and putting in place mechanisms for management of recovered stolen assets.

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Lost Certificates: WAEC Says Guard Your Certificates Well, We’ll Not Issue Twice - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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June 17, 2019
The West AfricanExaminations Council, WAEC has advised people in possession of its certificatesto guard them well, saying it will not re-issue on account of misplacement,fire, flood or theft.
The Council’s Head ofNational Office, Olu Adenipekun who gave the advice in Lagos said it wasnecessary as lots of people have been approaching the council at various timesfor a re-issue of the lost certificates.
The WAEC chiefexplained that after all such processes had been satisfactorily concluded then,the council would consider the issuance of “Attestation Certificate”.
According toAdenipekun, in an effort to reduce the incidence of certificates loss andprotection, the council in Nigeria, four years ago introduced what it calledcertificate cover.
He explained that one of the ways candidates or persons get their certificates destroyed was majorly in an attempt to laminate them.


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Low Revenue: FG Considers Job Cut In Civil Service –Minister - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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January 6, 2022
Minister of Finance, Budget and National Planning,  Zainab Ahmed dropped the hint  in Abuja, while fielding questions from stakeholders during a public presentation of the 2022 federal government’s budget proposal.
On ways the  government plans to reduce rising overheads and personnel cost across MDAs,  Zainab said  that a committee  was working on the proposal.
She observed that reducing the size of government has become necessary in view of the bloated size of the  recurrent expenditure annually.
Emphatically, she said,  staff of the federal government will lose their jobs when government merges their agencies with others.
According to her,  the mode of reducing the workforce  will not  entirely  align with the Stephen Oronsanya’s  report but would be based on the committee’s  recommendation.

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Low Trade: ECOWAS Meets Shippers Council In West Africa Region - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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May 14, 2019
The ECOWAS Monitoring Task Force on the implementation of ECOWAS Trade Liberalisation Scheme today met with the Nigerian Shippers Council to deliberate on the low trade in the West Africa region.
The spokesperson of the delegation, Nwagu Julius made this known when the task force paid courtesy visit to the Council in Abuja.
According to Nwagu, the task force has been going on advocacy visit to all the 15 neighbouring countries including Nigeria since 2017.
Responding, the Executive Secretary of the council, Hassan Bello said the shippers council has been statutorily empowered to ensure that condition of liberal trade is carried out, especially in Nigeria, to remove all barriers affecting trade.
He said that Nigeria has not been able to standardise the issue of infrastructure, stating that the task force was a good idea.
According to Bello, the council is canvassing for common laws on the issue of adjudication in the area of conflict resolution.


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LPG Expansion: FG To Inject 10 Million Gas Cylinders In 12 Pilot States – Osinbajo - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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November 23, 2021
Osinbajo said this at a two-day Liquefied Petroleum Gas LPG sensitisation under the theme: “Stimulating Delta state’s socio-economic growth through LPG adoption and expansion”, in Asaba.
The programme was organised by the National LPG Expansion Implementation Plan NLEIP under the Office of the Vice President, in collaboration with the Delta state government.
Represented by Senior Special Assistant to the President on LPG, Dayo Adeshina, stated that two states had been selected from each geopolitical zone for the pilot programme.
The Vice President said that the Federal Government was committed to ensuring an end to gas-flaring and had signed the climate change bill, to reduce the emission of greenhouse gases in the country.

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LPG: FG Affirms Removal Of VAT On Cooking Gas - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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October 2, 2019
The Federal Government has confirmed the removal ofValue Added Tax VAT on Liquefied Petroleum Gas LPG in Nigeria, otherwise knownas cooking gas.
The Chairman, Federal Inland Revenue Service, FIRS,who said this at the stakeholders’ meeting with Vice President Yemi Osinbajo,in Abuja, recently said the measure was targeted at growing the LPG sector.
The Federal Government had earlier in the yearpromised to remove VAT on cooking gas to encourage utilisation of the productin many households.
Osinbajo had explained that specifically, forhousehold cooking, the present administration is targeting a 40 percentadoption rate (i.e. 13.8m households) in 5 years, and 73 percent adoption in 10years (33.3m households).
The President, Nigeria Liquefied Petroleum GasAssociation, Nuhu Yakubu said the Nigeria LP Gas Association is the umbrellabody of all stakeholders in the LP Gas sector in Nigeria.

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LPG Plant: DPR Tasks Operators On Safety Measures - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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January 16, 2020
The Department of Petroleum Resources, DPR has called on Liquefied Petroleum Gas, LPG plant operators to take necessary measures to ensure safety of end-users of cooking gas in Kaduna State.
TheDPR North-West Zonal Operational Controller, Isa Tafida, gave the task at aone-day stakeholders’ sensitisation meeting in Kaduna. He said relevantagencies were taking necessary regulatory measures to ensure only licensedoperators dispensed the commodity to consumers.
Tafidanoted that the recent gas explosion at Sabon-Tasha and the proliferation of LPGplants and retailers across the State informed the need to enlightenstakeholders on the requirements to adopt and adhere strictly to StandardOperating Procedure, SOP, in dispensing gas to consumers.
TheController said sensitising both operators and consumers became necessary toprevent future occurrence.
Itwould be recalled that eight persons lost their lives while four otherssustained various degrees of injury and property worth millions of Nairadestroyed in acetylene gas explosion on January 4 at Sabon-Tasha, Kaduna.

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Madagascar: Death Toll From Cyclone Batsirai Rises To 30 - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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February 9, 2022
On Wednesday morning, Madagascar’s disaster management agency
announced that the number of dead on the Indian Ocean island had risen
from 21 to 30 the previous evening, saying that 94,000 people were
victims of the cyclone with 60,000 now homeless.
The tropical cyclone hit Madagascar overnight from Saturday to Sunday,
on a 150-km-long, sparsely populated and agricultural eastern coastal
area.
Some 77 percent of Madagascar’s 28 million people live below the
poverty line, and the latest blow comes during a severe drought in the
south which has plunged more than a million people into acute
malnutrition, some facing famine.
Madagascar was still picking up the pieces after Tropical Storm Ana
affected at least 131,000 people across the island late last month, with
most of the 55 deaths occurring in Antananarivo.
Tropical Storm Ana also hit Malawi, Mozambique and Zimbabwe,
causing dozens of deaths.

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Madagascar Disaster: United Nations Agency Says 34 Die In Tropical Storms - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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January 26, 2022
The Minister of Youth and Sports Sunday Dare has hosted the Super Eagles at a breakfast session on their arrival from Cameroon where the team crashed out of the last 16 stage of the ongoing Africa Cup of Nations, AFCON.
Dare, while speaking at the occasion applauded the team despite the team’s early exit from the AFCON edition of the tournament and also expressed confidence of Nigerians in the squad managed at the African football masterpiece by Augustine Eguavoen.
He however stressed that Super Eagles have put Africa and the rest of the world on notice, noted that Nigerian football will be characterized by greater team work, effort and cohesion.
The Minister also lauded Eguavoen and the Coaching staff and concluded that they gave a strong performance despite the early exit.
On his part, Super Eagles Captain, Ahmed Musa has assured that the team will return stronger after their exit from the 2021 AFCON in Cameroon.
Meanwhile, the former Africa champions will aim at saving her image when they meet the Black Stars of Ghana for 2022 FIFA World Cup ticket in the play-offs in March.
It was gathered that over the last week, intense rainfall has pummeled the African island country in the Indian Ocean, sparking multiple crises across the country’s central Analamanga Region.
The UN tweeted, that the Government, municipal authorities in Antananarivo and humanitarians are mobilising assistance to people impacted by flooding in the capital, saying providing access to water, food and other vital items in displacement sites is the top priority.
The rains were initially driven by an Intertropical Convergence Zone around the equator on January 17 and increased when a Tropical Depression, or cyclone, made landfall in the east of the country some three days later, exiting the other side of the island the following day.
Twenty-four lives were lost over the weekend, mostly in the capital where traditional houses collapsed, and others were swept away by landslides.

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Madagascar: Dozens Die In Cattle Rustler, Villegers Clash - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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September 23, 2021
The Country’s Human Rights Commission says it will conduct an independent probe into the attacks, adding that it will also help provide better security for local people.
Clashes between cattle rustlers and villagers happen frequently in the area.
In another development, the Libyan commander, Khalifa Haftar has taken measures that may enable him to run in a presidential election, slated for December.
Haftar says he is stepping down from his military duties to take advantage of a controversial new law. He explained that officials must resign their posts in order to stand in the elections, but guarantees that they can return to their old positions if they lose.

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Madagascar: Independence Day Stampede Kills 15, Wounds 75 - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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June 27, 2019
Authorities in Madagascar said at least 15 peoplewere killed and 75 wounded in a stampede at a stadium after a military paradein Madagascar’s capital to mark the country’s Independence Day.
Joseph Ravoa-hangy Andriana-valona Hospitalconfirmed the casualties, said Secretary of State for the Gendarmerie GeneralRichard Ravalo-manana.
Defence Minister, General Richard said it wasunclear what had caused the stampede. Some witnesses said people were trying topush their way into the stadium but that authorities had only opened one smalldoor.


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Madagascar Shipwreck: Death Toll Rises To 64 - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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December 22, 2021
A wooden vessel, believed to be a cargo ship carrying passengers
illegally, sank in the Indian Ocean on Monday with 130 people on board.
Five children were among the dead.
Fifty passengers have since been rescued and around 15 remain missing,
as search for survivors continues.
Maritime authorities said initial investigations suggested the vessel’s
engine had a technical problem, leaving the boat vulnerable to tidal
forces and causing it to run aground on a reef.

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Made-In-Nigeria Goods: NEPC Eyes Ivorian Market To Boost Foreign Exchange Earnings - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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April 29, 2022
To actualise this, the NEPC is planning an exhibition of made-in-Nigeria goods in Cote D’Ivoire to intimate Ivorians on the quality of locally- made products.
The Executive Director of NEPC, Dr. Ezra Yakusak, who spoke in Abuja during the launch of the Made in Nigeria Exhibition and Nigeria- Cote D’Ivoire Excellent Award, said NEPC was interested in boosting Nigeria’s non-oil export earnings.
DR. Yakusak stressed the importance of non-oil exports in diversifying the economy and harped on the need for Nigerian exporters to capture the West African market before extending to other markets, especially with the signing of the Africa Continental Free Trade Agreement.
He said ECOWAS, with an estimated population of 350 million and a GDP of $1.48 trillion, was a budding market in which the presence of Nigerian entrepreneurs had not yet been felt.
The NEPC boss added that the Export Trade House, which was recently launched by the NEPC in Cairo, Egypt, would boost made-in-Nigerian products, reduce the cost of logistics on Nigerian small and medium enterprises while creating jobs for young Nigerians.
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Made In Nigeria: Osinbajo Lauds Production Of First Aircraft - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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April 28, 2019
The Vice President, Yemi Osinbajo has commended the effort being made by the Nigerian Air Force in collaboration with other partners to produce the first ever made in Nigeria aircraft.
Osinbanjo, who was represented by the Secretary of the Federation, Boss Mustapha made this known on Saturday in Abuja, during the Ngerian Air Force Research and Development Competition and Exhibition, as part of this year’s NAF@55 celebration.
He said without any doubts, such research and development initiatives were critical to the Service as well as to the Nation.
Osinbajo noted that it was important to look inwards, stop the over-dependence on foreign technology and become more innovative in the use of local resources.
In his remarks, the Chief of Air Staff, Air Marshal Sadique Abubakar said the event was put together to showcase the Research and Development efforts of the Nigerian Air Force.


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Made In Nigeria: Osinbajo Lauds Production Of First Aircraft - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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April 28, 2019
The Vice President, Yemi Osinbajo has commended theeffort being made by the Nigerian Air Force in collaboration with otherpartners to produce the first ever made in Nigeria aircraft.
Osinbanjo, who was represented by the Secretary ofthe Federation, Boss Mustapha made this known on Saturday in Abuja, during theNgerian Air Force Research and Development Competition and Exhibition, as partof this year’s NAF@55 celebration.
He said without any doubts, such research anddevelopment initiatives were critical to the Service as well as to the Nation.
Osinbajo noted that it was important to lookinwards, stop the over-dependence on foreign technology and become moreinnovative in the use of local resources.
In his remarks, the Chief of Air Staff, Air MarshalSadique Abubakar said the event was put together to showcase the Research andDevelopment efforts of the Nigerian Air Force.


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Mafita: Yadda Za A Kawo Karshen ‘Yan Bindiga A Jihar Zamfara - Gwamna Yari - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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March 21, 2019
Gwamnanjihar Zamfara Abdul-Aziz Yari, ya ce sai gwamnatocin jihohin da ke makwaftakada jihar sa sun hada gwiwa kafin a samu nasarar fatattakar ‘yan bindigar da keaddabar al’ummar yankin.
Abdul-AzizYari ya bayyana hakan ne, a lokacin wata hira da ya yi da kafar yada labarai taBBC a Abuja, inda ya ce akwai bukatar a ba sojoji manyan bindigogi domin yakida maharan da ke yankin.
Yace sojojin Nijeriya su na da horo da kayan aiki, sannan su na da cikakken iko.
Yariya cigaba da cewa, ya kamata sojoji su nuna wa wadannan maharan ba sani ba sabowajen yaki da su.
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Magu Raises Concerns Over Obstacles In Repatriating Stolen Funds - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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July 28, 2019
The Acting Chairman, Economic and Financial CrimesCommission, EFCC Ibrahim Magu has decried the difficulties being experienced inthe repatriation of stolen assets traced to foreign countries.
He appealed to the international law enforcement agencies to assist the agency in this regard. Read This: Insecurity, Economy: Shehu Sani Asks President Buhari To Fix Nigeria
A statement by the commission’s Acting Spokesman,Tony Orilade in Abuja quoted Magu to have expressed the concern when Joe Abah,Country Director of DAI Nigeria, visited him in his office.
DAI is an international development firmimplementing programmes covering governance, in more than one hundred countriesworldwide.
According to Magu, the process of repatriatingmonies stashed abroad has been very frustrating and disappointing.
Earlier, Abah said that the visit was part ofefforts aimed at supporting the anti-corruption crusade in Nigeria. Herecognised the valuable work EFCC is doing to preventing, investigating,prosecuting and combating financial and economic crimes.


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Magudi: ‘Yan Sanda A Jihar Zamfara Sun Kama Wata Mota Makare Da Kayan Zabe - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
Editor 4
February 22, 2019
Kwamishinan ‘yan sandan jiharZamfara Celestine Okoye ya ce rundunar sa ta samu nasarar kama wata mota makareda kayayyakin zabe da za a ka su sokoto daga Abuja.
Okoye ya ce bincike ya nuna cewa,wasu ne da ba su da izinin daukar kayan zabe suka loda kayayyakin domin kai sujihar Sokoto.
Kwamishinan ya kara da cewa, rundunarta kama motar da kuma  direban ta sannanta na gudanar da bincike a kan lamarin.
Celestine Okoye ya kuma kara dacewa, jami’an tsaron su bas u yi kasa a gwiwa ba wajen ganin sun kama dukwadanda bai kamata ya mallaki wani abu na zabe ba, sannan sun dauki duk wanimatakan da zai taimaka wajen ganin sun kare kayayyakin zaben da za a yi amfanida su a lokutan zabukan da za a gudanar a wannan shekara.

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Magudi: ‘Yan Sanda Sun Kama Mota Dankare Da Kayan Zabe A Jihar Zamfara - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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February 21, 2019
Rundunar‘yan sanda ta jihar Zamfara, ta ce ta kama wata mota dankare da kayan zabe za akai su Sokoto daga Abuja.
Kwamishinan‘yan sanda Celestine Okoye ya bayana wa manema labarai haka a garin Gusau.
Okoye,ya ce bincike ya nuna cewa, wasu ne da ba su da izinin daukar kayan zabe ne su kadauki kayan domin kai su jihar Sokoto.
Yace Ma’aikatan su sun tare direban motar a wani shingen duba motoci, inda daganan yayi kokarin arcewa har ya afka wa wasu masu tuka keke NAPEP biyu.
Okoyeya cigaba da cewa, tuni rundunar ta kama motar da direban, kuma ta na kan gudanarda bincike a kai.

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Maiduguri Power Plant, Giant Leap Towards Achieving Gas, Power Mandate – NNPCL - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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March 3, 2023
Group Chief Executive Officer, GCEO, NNPCL, Mele Kyari made this known during the commissioning of the 50-Megawatt Maiduguri Emergency Power Plant project by President Muhammadu Buhari in Borno State.
According to reports, due to the unfortunate attacks of insurgents which destroyed three towers of electricity power lines in Maiduguri, President Buhari in April 2021, directed the NNPC limited to restore power supply to Maiduguri and its environs.
However, Kyari said on the directive of the president, a 32 Megawatts gas fired power plant was designed and built in 16 months unprecedented and had been successfully test-run and confirmed ready by the president.
He noted that the commissioning of the emergency power plant by Buhari would open a new chapter of the NNPCL commercial energy for on grid and off grid capital markets.


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Maimaita Zabe: PDP Ta Nada Dino Melaye Da Ortom Wakilan Zaben Gwamna A Benue - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
Abubakar Abubakar
March 15, 2019
Jam’iyyarPDP a jihar Benue, ta nada Sanata Dino Melaye da Gwamna Samuel Ortom a matsayinwakilan zabe da za su yi aiki a zaben gwamna da za a maimaita a jihar.
Hakakuma, jam’iyyar ta zabi tsohon shugaban majalisar dattawa David Mark da tsohongwamnan jihar Gabriel Suswan da tsohon Ministan cikin gida Abba Moro a matsayinwakilan zaben da za a gudanar kamar yadda rahotanni su ka bayyana.
Watamajiya ta ce, an mika sunayen mutanen a cikin jerin sunayen wakilai 24 da PDPta mika wa ofishin Hukumar Zabe a matsayin wakilan su na zaben.
Awani bangare kuma, hukumar zabe ta kasa ta ce, babu wata kotu da ke da ikonhana ta maimaita zabe a jihar Adamawa a wuraren da zaben bai kammala.
Kwamishinanzabe na jihar Adamawa Barista Kassim Gaidam, ya ce doka ba ta ba kotu ikon hanahukumar zabe gudanar da ayyukan ta ba kamar yadda wasu rahotanni su ka ruwaitoba.


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Maintenance Of Lab Equipment A Major Challenge – NCDC - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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May 19, 2020
The Director General of the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control NCDC, Chikwe Ihekweazu said that one of its biggest challenges in scaling up testing across the country lies in the maintenance of laboratories for testing COVID-19.
He explained that until recently, many laboratory equipment worth millions of Naira and sometimes Dollars, lay fallow because of minor issues requiring repairs.
Speaking during the daily briefing of the Presidential Task Force on COVID-19, Ihekweazu said the maintenance of medical equipment is one of the biggest challenges Nigeria have.


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Maj.-Gen. Yusuf Takes Over As MNJTF Commander - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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November 20, 2019
Major General IbrahimYusuf has taken over as the 6th Force Commander of the Multinational Joint TaskForce, MNJTF in N’Djamena, Chad republic.
The Chief of MilitaryPublic Information MNJTF Colonel Timothy Antigha made this known in a statementin Abuja.
During the handingover ceremony, the Executive Secretary, Lake Chad Basin Commission and Head ofMission MNJTF, Mamman Nuhu congratulated the former Force Commander, MajorGeneral Chikezie Ude for successfully completing his tour of duty.
Nuhu said that themost significant achievement of MMJTF under Ude was the continuous mobileoperation concept, which was approved by the Heads of State and Government ofTroop Contributing Countries.
Also, the SpecialRepresentative of the African Union Commission Chairperson, Zaina Nyiramatama,commended Ude’s efforts in dealing with the military and security threatsconstituted by Boko Haram Terrorists and wished the former commander success inhis future endeavours.
In his remarks, Major General Ude thanked the Head of Mission, TroopContributing Countries, African Union and strategic partners for sustainingtheir support for the MNJTF throughout his tour of duty and urged same supportfor his successor.

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Major Shake Up In ARMY As Coas Redeploys Theatre Commanders, GOCS, Others - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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June 26, 2023
Director of Army Public Relations, Brigadier-General, Onyema Nwachukwu, made this known in a statement issued in Abuja.
The statement said those affected in the exercise include some Principal Staff Officers of the Army Headquarters’ General Officers Commanding, Corps Commanders; Commandants of training institutions; Brigade Commanders; Commanding Officers, amongst others.
The Spokeman also said the Army Chieordered alld  all newly appointed senior officers to redouble their effort and commitment to duty in ensuring the sustenance of the ongoing onslaught against terrorism, insurgency and other threats to national security, as they assume their new appointments.


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Malabu: Jonathan Says He Has No Account, Property Outside Nigeria - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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May 12, 2019
Former Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan hasreacted to the report that claimed that lawyers for the Federal Government had,in a London court filing, accused him of accepting bribes in order to broker a1.3 billion dollars oil deal eight years ago.
While dismissing the report as a recycled falsehoodthat is blatantly dishonest, cheap, and predictable, he also said he had neveropened an account outside Nigeria.
He stated this in a statement issued by his mediaadviser, Ikechukwu Eze.
The former President was reacting to the allegedfilling of a case by the Federal Government in London on the controversialMalabu oil deal.
He said there was nothing new to what he describedas fabricated bribery claim which he said he had debunked in the past.Eze said the fact remained that as recentnational events continued to vindicate Jonathan, and the world continued tocelebrate him, those he said who were insecure would feed such propaganda totheir media agents to feed their inferiority complex.


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Malabu Oil Deal: Federal Government Files Fresh Charges Against Adoke, Shell, Others - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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January 21, 2020
The Federal Government has filed a fresh 42-count charge against former Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Mohammed Bello Adoke and six others over alleged fraud in the one-point-one billion dollars Malabu oil deal.
Adoke is being charged alongside Rasky Gbinigie, A.Abubakar, Malabu Oil and Gas Limited, Nigeria Agip Exploration Limited, ShellUltra Deep Limited and Shell Nigeria Exploration Production Limited.
The Federal Government had on January 15, at the High Courtof the Federal Capital Territory, accused Adoke and others of receivinggratification to allegedly carry out a fraudulent oil deal.
According to the Federal Government, as Attorney-General,Adoke mediated controversial agreements that ceded OPL 245 to Shell and Eni,who in turn paid about one-point-one billion dollars to accounts controlled byformer Petroleum Minister, Dan Etete.

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Malabu Oil: We’re Studying UK Court Judgement – FG - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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June 16, 2022
The judgement delivered by Judge Sara Cockerill, held that Nigeria failed to show prove that the said transaction defrauded the country.
Nigeria had filed a civil suit against JP Morgan Chase Bank over the purchase by Shell and Eni of the offshore OPL 245 oilfield in Nigeria, for $1.1 billion.
Lawyers to the Federal Government had contended that the contract awarded to former Petroleum Minister, Dan Etete, to explore the deep waters off the Gulf of Guinea was corrupt, alleging that the bank ought to have known that there was corruption and fraud in the transaction which saw Malabu sell its 100 per cent in OPL 245 to Shell and ENI for $1.1 billion.”
They had argued that JP Morgan Chase Bank ignored glaring red flags, including overwhelming evidence of fraud and stark warnings from its own compliance staff when it authorised the payments.
However, briefing State House Correspondents after the week’s virtual Federal Executive Council, FEC, meeting, presided over by President Muhammadu Buhari at the Presidential Villa, Abuja, Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, said government’s lawyers will study the ruling and decide whether to appeal or not.


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Malabu Scandal: Nigeria Loses Bid To Postpone London Trial - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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March 18, 2020
Nigeria’s government has lost a bid to postpone a massive claim against oil giants, Eni and Shell, in a London court.
Royal Dutch Shell and Eni’s bid to block a 1.1 billion dollars civil claim over corruption allegations in Nigeria will go ahead next month, Mark Pelling, a judge in a London court ruled.
The court ruled that it should not wait for aconnected Italian ruling.
Nigeria wanted the April court date postponed untilJanuary 2021, when a connected criminal case in Milan will have concluded.
The oil companies and former and current executivesface corruption charges linked to the Malabu scandal, a 2011 deal involving aNigerian oil block known as OPL 245.
Officials affected in the scandal have deniedwrongdoing.
The controversial Malabu deal was struck in 2011under former President Goodluck Jonathan. The arrangement saw the Nigeriangovernment stand as a negotiator in the controversial sale of the oil block inoffshore Nigerian waters.


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Malami Faults Southwest Governors On Magodo Crisis - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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January 6, 2022
The police officer had claimed to be acting on the order of the Attorney-General of the Federation and Inspector-General Alkali Usman.
Speaking for his colleagues in the region the Southwest Governors’ Forum, Ondo State Governor Olurotimi Akeredolu, flayed the role of the Attorney-General of the Federation and the Inspector-General in the deployment of a police detachment.
The governors also described as repugnant the disrespectful attitude displayed by the police officer who declined to carry out the Sanwo-Olu’s directives.
But, Malami justified his involvement in the matter, arguing that his intervention was in furtherance of the doctrine of the rule of law.
Malami, in the statement by his spokesman, Umar Gwandu, said it was within his responsibility, as the nation’s Chief Law Officer, to ensure the execution of valid court decisions.


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Malami Urges NDLEA New Cadets To Be Patriotic, Good Ambassadors In Fight Against Drug Abuse - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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November 26, 2021
Malami gave the advice when the newly-recruited cadets paid him a thank-you visit at his Khadimiyya for Justice and Development Initiative Foundation’s office in Birnin Kebbi.
The minister, represented by the Chairman of Khadimiyya Board of Trustees, Alhaji Abubakar Usman-Gotomo, commended the youth for the visit.
Speaking on behalf of the cadets, Narcotic Officer, Haliru Zakari-Gulma, extended their gratitude to the minister for his efforts in providing numerous opportunities for youths in the state.
Zakari-Gulma assured that they would be patriotic, good ambassadors of the state and are determined to excel where ever they found themselves in the line of their official duties.
About 1,978 new cadets graduated from the Assistant Superintendent of Narcotics Course 15, 2021, in Jos on 19 November.

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Malaria Eradication: USAID Advocates Behavioural Change - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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April 8, 2019
The United States Agency for International Development through Breakthrough Action, one of its sponsored programmes, has advocated for social behavioural change in eradicating malaria.
The Programme Coordinator for USAID/Breakthrough Action Nigeria, Sunday Moses, who disclosed this in Jos, said that social behavioural change was key in eradicating malaria.
He said imbibing practices such as sleeping under Insecticidal Treated Nets, the use of Rapid Diagnostic Test kits for actual diagnosis and adherence to the full course of the ACTs were salient changes needed for elimination of the disease.
Moses called on traditional and religious leaders to advocate for positive change of harmful social norms, beliefs and practices that were related to malaria eradication among their subjects and congregants.
He explained that if these changes were effectively implemented, there would be minimal or no cases due to malaria and there would be an effective decline in under five as well as maternal and new-born deaths caused by malaria.
Moses said this could bring about a healthier and more educated state and country at large.


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Malaria: Experts Say Disease Kills 4,500 Pregnant Women In Nigeria Annually - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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March 9, 2020
Some Health Experts say about 4,500 pregnant women die from malaria annually in the country, adding that the number accounts for 11 per cent of the maternal mortality rate in the country.
TheExperts made the known in Abuja, at the donation of 5,000 doses of SulfadoxinePyrimethamine, SPLIT Maldox tablets to the Intermittent Preventive Treatmentfor Pregnant Women project by Emzor Pharmaceutical Industries.
BrightOrji one of the experts said Nigeria contributes about 25 per cent of malariacases in the world , adding that every year about  9.8 million women get pregnant out of which 14 per cent  would likely have malaria parasitein their blood system. He added that the disease causes still birth and deathin pregnant women.
Onhis part, Chief Executive officer of Emzor Pharmaceutical Industries StellaOkoli said many people were in need of malaria interventions and enjoinedNigerians to assist in protecting more people from malaria.
TheMinister of State for Health, Adeleke Olorunnimbe Mamora applauded Emzor forthe donation and assured of the commitment of the present administration inprotecting Nigerians from malaria as well as providing enabling enablingenvironment to enable Nigerian companies grow.


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Malaria: FG Tasks Healthcare Workers On Professionalism - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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September 2, 2019
The Federal Government has advised healthcare workers to be truly professional in the distribution of free mosquito nets to the general public.
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TheNational Technical Director on Malaria, National Malaria Elimination Programme ,Olugbenga Mokuolu, gave the advice at the on-going free-Malaria in Kwara, onMonday in Ilorin.
Hesaid that the Long Lasting Insecticidal Nets was free and as such must not besold or diverted by those vested with the responsibility to distribute the netsand the beneficiaries of the product.
Mokuolasaid as important personnel on the health chain in the fight against malaria,he charged the health workers to deliver their services in accordance with thenational guidelines.
Mokuolu,a Professor of Paediatrics at the College of Health Science, University ofIlorin, appealed to Nigerians to have positive attitude towards the use of theinsecticide treated nets.
Heobserved that the fight against malaria was crucial as Nigeria presently wasranked high in terms of the contribution to the global burden on malaria andrelated malaria deaths.

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Malaria: FG To Empower Local Manufacturers To Produce Drugs – N.M.E.P Coordinator - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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January 7, 2020
TheCoordinator, National Malaria Elimination Programme, N.M.E.P, Audu Mohammedsays the Federal Government would empower local manufacturers to producemalaria drugs locally.
Headded that government would be doing this through the World HealthOrganisation, WHO’s pre-qualification progrmme.
TheCoordinator explained that the pre-qualification programme, set up in 2001, wasa service provided by WHO to facilitate access to medicines that met unifiedstandards of quality, safety and efficacy for HIV/AIDS, malaria andtuberculosis.
Headded that the programme had applied for Fund from three donors: World Bank,Islamic Development Bank and the Africa Development Bank, to supportmanufacturers and buy malaria live-saving commodities.
Henoted that World Bank has promised to give Nigeria about 200 million dollars,the Islamic Development Bank, 100 million dollars and African Development Banksixty-four million dollars.

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Malaria: KASU Scientist, Others Develop Mosquito Repellent Fabric - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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March 13, 2023
In a statement by the Public Relations Officer of KASU, Adamu Bargo, in Kaduna, added that the development was part of efforts aimed at ending the malaria scourge.
He stated that the product was the outcome of more than N27 million Research Grant, under the 2020 National Research Fund NRF, of the Tertiary Education Trust Fund TETFund.
Bargo identified the research topic as “Development of an Eco-friendly Mosquito Repellent Fabric, Embedded with Nanoparticles Encapsulated with Vitex Negundo Bioactive Compounds”.
He added that nightgowns were produced from the fabric, rather than the continuous use of chemical insecticides or mosquito-treated nets with synthetic chemicals.


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Malaria: Nigeria Records 55 Million Cases Annually - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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April 26, 2023
Minister of Health, Osagie Ehanire, made this known  at a press briefing to commemorate the World Malaria Day, themed: ‘Time to deliver zero malaria: invest, innovate, implement’, with the slogan: ‘Act now!’
Ehanire, who was represented by the Permanent Secretary of the ministry, Mamman Mamuda, said despite efforts by the Government and its partners to combat the effects of malaria in the country, the country still accounts for 27 percent of global malaria cases, and 32 percent of global malaria deaths.
The amount expenditure for malaria is estimated to be 70 percent and Nigerians pay as much as 2,280 naira on each malaria.
The Minister noted that Nigeria must continue to fight towards achieve zero-malaria target by 2030, in line with the World Health Organisation’s global technical strategy.
Meanwhile the Government had called for investment to defeat malaria and step-up innovative strategies and impactful interventions.


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Malaria: Nigerians Urged Join Hands With Fg To Boost Fight Against Scourge - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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March 30, 2019
Chairman,National World Malaria Day Committee, Uzodinma Adirieje has called on Nigeriansto join hands with the Federal government to boost the success of the fightagainst malaria in the country.
TheFederal Government on Saturday, called on Nigerians to join hands in the fightagainst malaria in the country.
Adiriejemade the call at a Pre-World Malaria Day news briefing on Saturday in Abuja.
Accordingto him, one out of four persons infected with malaria globally is a Nigerian,noting that Nigeria is sitting on top of high burden countries for malaria.
Thechairman said that eliminating malaria required prompt approach, adding thateverybody must play a part even at the household level.
Adiriejesaid the World Malaria Day, which will be marked on April 25, gave thecommittee a platform to exhibit and educate the public on the dangersassociated with the disease.


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Malaria: The World Health Organization Declares Algeria Free Of Deadly Disease - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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May 23, 2019
The World Health Organization,WHO,has declared thenation where malaria was discovered as officially free of malaria, making itthe third African country to eliminate one of the world’s leading killerdiseases.
With no recorded cases of malaria in threeconsecutive years, Argentina was also declared malaria-free – the secondcountry in the Americas after Paraguay in 45 years to wipe out the disease,which kills more than 400,000 people a year.
Now Algeria has shown the rest of Africa thatmalaria can be beaten through country leadership, bold action, sound investmentand science.
Although WHO has declared 38 countries malaria-freesince 1955, the fight against malaria has stalled as malaria-carryingmosquitoes have become resistant to drugs and insecticides in bednets thatprotect people from being bitten while sleeping.
Head of the Roll Back Malaria Partnership to End Malaria,Abdourahmane Diallo, said Algeria is the third African nation to become malariafree, after Mauritius in 1973 and Morocco in 2010, which brings economicbenefits.


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Malawi: Albinos Set Up Protest Camp, Demand Meeting With President - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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March 8, 2019
About 300 people, mostof them albinos, have braved steady rains this week, sometimes bringing trafficto a standstill to protest near the residence of Malawi’s President, PeterMutharika.
The demonstrators wanta face-to-face meeting with the president to discuss the continued killings ofalbinos in the southern African country.
Most of them woreblack attire and sang songs usually heard during funeral services. They alsocarried banners and placards with messages like “No More Sleeping onAlbino Attacks,” and “Same Blood, Different Colors.”
An official with theAssociation of Persons with Albinism in Malawi, Ian Simbota, which organizedthe protest, laid out the protesters goals.
He said some albinochildren have stopped going to school for fear of attacks.
The protesters triedto march on Mutharika’s residence but were turned back when police mounted ahuman wall about 200 meters from the front gate. Authorities said they couldnot allow a protest at State House because it is a protected area.


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Malawi: Chairperson Says Electoral Commission Ready For Polls On Tuesday - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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May 21, 2019
The head of the Malawi Electoral Commission says the commission was ready for balloting on Tuesday for the tripartite elections.
The electoral body Chairperson Justice Jane Ansah gave the assurance during a news conference at the tallying centre in Blantyre for the vote, which will elect a President, members of parliament and local government councilors.
She said the distribution of both electoral materials and personnel had been concluded and that the electoral body expected a high turnout among the estimated six point eight million registered voters.
The Chairperson urged citizens to ignore those reports, saying they were only meant to instill fear and cause people to lose morale in participating in the voting process.


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Malawi: Constitutional Court Cancels Presidential Election Result, Orders New Vote - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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February 4, 2020
Malawi’sConstitutional Court has nullified the results of a vote that re-electedPresident, Peter Mutharika in May 2019 and ordered a new presidential election,citing widespread irregularities including the use of correction fluid onballot papers.
Mutharika,who will remain president until the fresh elections, has the right to appealthe judgment, which is expected to stoke turmoil in the normally peacefulsouthern African country.
Thelead Judge, Healey Potani, said the court held that the first respondentMutharika was not duly elected as President of Malawi on May 21, 2019.
Headded that the court nullified the results of the presidential elections andordered for a fresh election within 150 days.
Thejudgment was greeted with jubilation in the second city of Blantyre, whereresidents in impoverished townships set-off fireworks.
Themain opposition Malawi Congress Party, which led the court challenge, welcomedthe ruling as a very fair judgement, which it said had set a precedent forfuture elections.

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Malawi: Court To Rule On 2019 Presidential Election - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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February 3, 2020
The nation has never had apresidential vote overturned, but the two opposition candidates who teamed upfor a legal challenge are hoping the Constitutional Court will agree with theirallegations of irregularities and order for a new vote.
President Peter Mutharika wasdeclared the narrow winner of the May election, with 38% of votes, followed byLazarus Chakwera, with 35%, and former vice-president Saulos Chilima camethird, with 20%. The four other candidates collectively got nearly 6%.
The five-judge panel has heardarguments that the vote was rigged by the president and Electoral Commission;both have denied it.
Malawi’s electoral commissionacknowledged receiving one-hundred-and-forty-seven reports allegingirregularities, including the use of correction fluid to alter some results.
The two opposition candidatesalleged that the irregularities affected over 1.4 million of the total 5.1million votes cast.

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Malawi: Embattled Poll Chief Defends Annulled Vote - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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February 14, 2020
Malawi’s Electoral Commission Head, Jane Ansah has admittedusing tip-pex correction fluid on ballot tally sheets in the now annulled 2019election, but claimed there is no evidence to suggest that it favored anyparticular candidate.
The Elections Chief was speaking before a specialparliamentary committee after the court ordered for an investigation into theconduct of the electoral commission, after demanding a fresh election within150 days. She stressed there is no evidence to show that the corrections usingTip-pex were favoring any particular candidate.
Malawi’s Constitutional Court overturned President PeterMutharika’s victory citing irregularities in the election.
The Court ordered a fresh exercise to hold not later thanMay. Malawi’s Parliament is re-examining the competencies of the electoralcommissioners.

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Malawi: Ex-President Banda Pulls Out Of Presidential Race - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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March 16, 2019
Malawi’s ex-president Joyce Bandahas withdrawn her presidential bid and endorsed opposition front runner LazarusChakwera, the two candidates’ parties announced.
Banda, who served as Presidentbetween 2012 and 2014 and was accused of abuse of office and money launderingduring her term, had been set to run for the role again in elections in May.
A joint statement from Chakwera’s Malawi Congress Party, the southern African country’s second largest, and Banda’s People’s Party said Malawi is bigger than individuals and as such they all have to set aside individual aspirations and embrace the greater and common good of the country.


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Malawi: Government Launches Inquiry Into Albino Killings - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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March 9, 2019
Malawi’sPresident Peter Mutharika has set up a commission of inquiry to investigateattacks against people with albinism.
Thecommission, headed by a retired Supreme Court judge, is expected to establishwhether there is a trade in body parts and to find out why the justice systemhas been slow to convict perpetrators.
Peoplewith albinism in Malawi, Mozambique and Tanzania have been killed because ofthe mistaken belief that rituals involving parts of their bodies can bring goodluck and wealth.
OnWednesday, police in Malawi blocked a protest march by dozens of people withalbinism who were trying to present a petition to the President following aspike in attacks.


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Malawi: Government Offers $7,000 Reward To Stop Albino Killings - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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March 1, 2019
Malawian Government has offered cash rewards of 7,000dollars for information about abductions and killing of people with albinism asanger over government inaction grew ahead of national elections.
Belief in witchcraft is widespread in rural Malawi, one ofthe world’s poorest countries, fuelling ritual killings particularly targetingpeople with albinism because of the belief that their body parts can increasewealth.
The renewed focus on albino murders comes after the NewYear’s Day killing of Yasin Phiri in the presence of his young son.
Local media said the man’s arms were hacked off, his teethpulled and his private parts removed, prompting calls by local andinternational civil society groups for government action.
President Peter Mutharika’s office said in a statement thatthe government will reward five million kwacha to anyone providing informationthat is proven to be credible relating to any conspiracy to abduct or killpersons with albinism.


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Malawi Lifts Visa Restrictions For 79 Countries - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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February 9, 2024
The Homeland Security Minister Ken Zikhałe, amended the immigration regulations effectively lifting visa barriers for citizens from the UK, China, Russia, Germany, Australia, Canada, Belgium, Ghana, The Gambia, Sierra Leone, France and others.
Nationals from the Southern African Development Community and the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa are also exempt from visa requirements.
This excludes countries that impose visa requirements on Malawian citizens.
The changes also include exemptions for certain groups such as diplomats and government officials, and countries that have mutual exchange agreements for multiple-entry visas with Malawi.
The validity of multiple entry visas in Malawi is now up to 12 months, according to the new visa regulations.

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Malawi: Opposition Chief Takes Member Of Parliament Seat Despite Disputing Presidential Vote - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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June 18, 2019
Malawi’s opposition chief, Lazarus Chakwera has been sworn-in as a member of parliament in the capital Lilongwe following the May 21 elections.
Chakwera who leads the Malawi Congress Party, MCP was sworn-in along with over 60 others at the Parliament Building. The swearing in for other lawmakers is set to continue toda
Chakwera reportedly took his oath of allegiance and office amid cheers from scores of party supporters who accompanied him. He is officially the leader of opposition in Malawi.
Malawi Congress Party is currently challenging the official outcome of the presidential vote which gave incumbent Peter Mutharika a second and final term in office whiles Chakwera came second.
The Malawian electoral system allows persons contesting for presidency and vice presidency to simultaneously contest for parliamentary seats. The incumbent vice president for instance lost his parliamentary bid.


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Malawi Poll: Incumbent Overtakes Opposition - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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May 24, 2019
The Malawi’s Electoral Commission, MEC chief Jane Ansah has called on stakeholders including political parties to refrain from announcing premature results, pledging that the commission will start official declaration of results as soon as twenty per cent of votes cast have been tallied.
Ansah said official results will be announced within eight days.
Citizens went to the polls on Tuesday, casting their votes to elect a President, Members of Parliament and Local Government Councillors.
President Peter Mutharika is seeking a second term, and is being challenged by his Deputy, Saulos Chilima, and the leader of the country’s biggest opposition party, Lazarus Chakwera.
The Malawi Electoral Commission, MEC said it had so far received seventy five point eighty one per cent of all results from polling stations.


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Malawi: President Mutharika Inaugurated, Opposition Announces Protests - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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May 31, 2019
Afterhis swearing-in earlier this week, Malawi president Peter Mutharika was officiallyinaugurated today at the same venue where he was sworn in, the Kamuzu Stadiumin Blantyre.
AHigh Court lifted an injunction of the announcement of results on Monday,allowing the elections body to finalize the collation of results from the May 21presidential polls.
Mutharikaleading the ruling Democratic Peoples Party (DPP) polled 1,940,709 .The mainopposition Malawi Congress Party, MCP, led by Lazarus Chakwera (MCP) polled1,781,740.
Whilesthe president’s inauguration was ongoing, the main opposition MCP’s leaderaddressed a press conference that rejected the results of the polls citingelectoral fraud.
Whilesconfirming that an action has been instituted in the courts to nullify theresults, Chakwera reiterated the party’s resolve to legally retrieve itsmandate from the DPP which he described as a “mafia state.”
Meanwhile,the Nation newspaper reports that the MCP’s Director for Youth, RichardChimwendo, says the party’s supporters will now take to the streets todemonstrate against what the party says is electoral fraud.


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Malawi: President Mutharika Re-Elected For 2nd Term - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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May 28, 2019
The Malawian Electoral CommissionSays President Peter Mutharika Has Been Re-Elected With Thirty Eight Per CentOf The Votes In Last Week’s Polls.
Mutharika’s Victory Was Announced InBlantyre, Malawi’s Largest City, Immediately After The High Court In Lilongwe,The Capital, Threw Out An Injunction Preventing The Electoral Commission FromAnnouncing The Winner.
The Ban Was Obtained By OppositionCandidate Lazarus Chakwera, Who Came In Close Second With Thirty Five Per CentOf The Votes.
Former Vice President Saulos ChilimaCame Third With Twenty Per Cent Of The Ballots. The Other Four PresidentialCandidates Collectively Got Nearly Six Per Cent Of The Vote.
In The Parliamentary Elections,Mutharika’s Democratic Progressive Party Won Sixty Three Seats In TheLegislative Body, While Chakwera’s Malawi Congress Party Got Fifty Five SeatsAnd Fifty Two Independent Candidates Were Elected.


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Malaysian PM Quits, Accuses Rivals Of Pandemic Power-Grab - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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August 16, 2021
Malaysia’s Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin has quit after losing majority support in parliament but is set to remain as interim leader until a replacement is found.
Muhyiddin in a televised speech, on Monday defended his record and accused rivals of trying to use the pandemic to seize power.
The now-caretaker Premier claimed his attempts to deal with the pandemic and to remain in office did not work because of parties who were greedy to grab power, rather than prioritising your lives and livelihoods.
Muhyiddin had in recent weeks came under heavy pressure to resign over his response to the Coronavirus pandemic, with record death and hospitalisation numbers being reported in spite of the three months lockdown.
Opposition parties had been joined by some members of the United Malays National Organisation, UMNO, the party of Deputy Premier Ismail Sabri Yaakob, in demanding Muhyiddin resigns.
Confirming that Muhyiddin could stay on as caretaker premier, King Abdullah said staging parliamentary elections now would not be the best decision based on factors concerning the welfare and safety of the people due to the pandemic.


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Malaysian University, NITT Collaborate To Foster Transport Technology - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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August 25, 2022
The Minister of State for Transportation, Ademola Adegoroye, in a statement by the ministry’s Director of Press and Public Relations, Eric Ojiekwe, said the move was commendable.
Adegoroye lauded the efforts of University of Technology, Malaysia UTM and NITT to develop competent human capital in the field of logistics and transportation.
The minister said that UTM was chosen due to its world-class education and research offerings and high employability among its graduates.
The MoU was signed by UTM Vice-Chancellor, Ismail and the Director and Chief Executive of NITT, Bayero Farah.
Nigeria’s Minister of State for Transportation, Adegoroye and the High Commissioner of Nigeria to Malaysia, Ambassador Hajara Salim, witnessed the occasion.


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Mali: Authorities Say Eight Soldiers Killed In Terrorists Ambush - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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December 31, 2021
The Army in a statement said the attack occurred near the town of Nara, about 30 kilometers south of the border with Mauritania.
It added that a unit in the Nara area was the target of a complex attack combining improvised explosive devices, IEDs and heavy weapons.
The statement said the army had earlier given a provisional death toll of four.
However, no group has yet claimed responsibility for the ambush.
Reports say Mali is the epicentre of an armed uprising that began in the north of the country in 2012 and spread three years later to neighbouring Niger and Burkina Faso. Thousands of people across the region have died and about two million have been displaced by the conflict.

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Mali Bids Farewell To Ex- President Keita - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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January 21, 2022
Interim Prime Minister Choguel Kokalla Maiga attended the ceremony
in a military camp in the Sahel state’s capital Bamako, where the ex-
leader’s coffin was draped in the Malian flag.
Keita’s relatives attended too, as well as former Malian Prime Minister
Moussa Mara, Guinea’s foreign minister, and foreign diplomats in
Bamako.
Thousands of people also gathered at the former president’s residence in
Bamako to pay their respects.
Keita, who was elected in a landslide in 2013 and won re-election five
years later, died aged 76 on Sunday. He is due to be buried at his
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Mali Coup: Nigeria Demands Immediate Restoration Of Constitutional Order - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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August 20, 2020
The Minister of Foreign Affairs Geoffrey Onyeama made the call on behalf of the government through his verified twitter handle. He also noted that Nigeria also welcomed the urgent activation of the ECOWAS Standby Force.
Onyeama said the Federal Government condemned the coup d’état that took place in Mali on Tuesday and demands the instant and unconditional restoration of constitutional order.
It would be recalled that Keita and Prime Minister Boubou Cisse were arrested by the military after a mutiny on Tuesday. The incident followed months of street protests in the volatile West African state, which was also battling Islamic insurgency.
The coup is coming after several weeks of political tensions and repeated anti-government protests during which talks between the government and the opposition, led by popular cleric, Mahmoud Dicko, a former ally of Keita, failed.


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Mali: Court Fixes Friday To Hear Suit Challenging Ecowas Sanctions - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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September 23, 2020
The ECOWAS Court of Justice has fixed Friday to hear two interlocutory applications in a case instituted by two associations in Mali against the ECOWAS Commission and the Republic of Côte d’Ivoire.
The case is challenging the legality of the August 18 sanctions imposed on the Republic of Mali, following the military coup against President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita.
In the interlocutory application filed by the Malian Coalition and the Consumers Association of Mali, both registered in the country, the associations are asking for the orders of the Court suspending the sanctions.
A statement issued by the media unit of the Court on Wednesday in Abuja, said that the association also sought for accelerated hearing of both cases challenging the sanctions.

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Mali Crises: Experts Propose 2-Year Transition With President Chosen By Junta - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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September 12, 2020
The text has been submitted to hundreds of participants at a three-day forum in Bamako aimed at mapping a way forward for the troubled country.
Under the proposal for a transitional government, the president would be a “civil or military personality”.
The talks mark the second round of discussions between the young officers who overthrew President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita on August 18 and civilian representatives, many of whom had campaigned for him to resign.
The junta, just hours after the coup, pledged to restore civilian government and stage elections within a “reasonable time”.

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Mali Crisis: ECOWAS Committed To Democracy, Good Governance ― Osinbajo - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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January 10, 2022
The sub-regional body’s imposed sanctions against Mali’s transitional military leaders after they informed the bloc they would not be able to hold presidential and legislative elections in February.
It added that apart from shutting borders, ECOWAS member countries also recalled their ambassadors from Mail as they rejected the junta’s transition table.
Osinbajo, who represented President Muhammadu Buhari, while speaking after the Extraordinary Summit of the ECOWAS Authority of Heads of State and Government in Accra, Ghana, said there is clear evidence international community will no longer accept unconstitutional takeover of government.
He also explained that there is a strong resolve by ECOWAS to stand against coup d’états in the sub-region.

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Mali Crisis Mediator Urges Short Transition Less Than 5 Years - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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February 23, 2022
He made the comments a day after Mali’s army-dominated legislature approved a plan allowing the military that seized power in August 2020 to stay in office for another five years, despite regional sanctions.
Jonathan also questioned the legitimacy of Mali’s parliament, the National Transitional Council that was hit by ECOWAS sanctions last November.
Jonathan, who is a former president of Nigeria, was speaking after an ECOWAS workshop in Nigeria’s commercial capital Lagos.
In a statement, he said the council found that poor educational systems in the region were linked to the instability.

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Mali: Ex-President Toure Given State Burial Tuesday - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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November 17, 2020
Toure, sometimes called Mali’s soldier of democracy, died on November 10 at the age of 72 after he had been transferred to Turkey for medical care following heart surgery.
A coffin draped in the national flag and borne by six soldiers was slowly carried into the centre of a square in the capital Mali for ceremonies attended by the leaders of the country’s latest putsch and by foreign dignitaries.
Those in the VIP stand included Bah Ndaw, a former military officer who is currently president of Mali’s transitional government, and the vice president, Assimi Goita, who led the August 18 coup.
Toure, a former soldier, first took charge of the country for a year in 1991.
He helped overthrow the iron-fisted regime of Moussa Traore, who had been in power since 1968.

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Mali: German Defence Minister Visits Soldiers In North-Eastern Region - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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October 8, 2019
German Defence Minister, Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer has visited German soldiers serving with the United Nations, UN in Mali to learn about their mission in the country.
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The soldiersare based in Camp Castor in the north-eastern city of Gao, as part of theUnited Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in Mali,MINUSMA peacekeeping mission, which is considered the most dangerous operationcurrently underway.
The north ofMali was temporarily controlled by militants and other rebel groups in 2012following a military coup until France intervened militarily.
MINUSMA isamong the UN’s largest military missions, with 11,000 blue-helmet soldiers andmore than 1,500 police officers and civilians stationed in Mali.

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